“Two Moon” War Chief of the Crow

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Paxson has the right war chief, Two Moons (though he forgot the s), but he has the wrong tribe. Two Moons was Cheyenne, not Crow. We can perhaps forgive the artist. He must have been fairly excited in 1902 to be painting one of the great Indian leaders, a celebrated warrior at the Battle of the Little Bighorn as well as at the Rosebud and Wolf Mountain. After his surrender, Two Moons scouted for the officer who had defeated him, General Nelson Miles, and eventually became head Chief of the Cheyenne Northern Reservation. In addition to posing for Paxson and other artists, Two Moons was one of Fraser’s models for the Indian Head/Buffalo nickel.

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